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Lawmakers Probe Early Release of Top RU Cybercrook

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: Aleksei Burkov, a cybercriminal who long operated two of Russia’s most exclusive underground hacking forums, was arrested in 2015 by Israeli authorities. The Russian government fought Burkov’s extradition to the U.S. for four years — even arresting and jailing an Israeli woman to force a prisoner swap. That effort failed: Burkov was…

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Ukrainian hackers say HackerOne is blocking their bug bounty payouts (updated)

Posted on March 14, 2022 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: Ukrainian hackers and security researchers say bug bounty platform HackerOne is withholding their bug bounty rewards, in some cases thousands of dollars, and refusing to let hackers withdraw their earnings. Several hackers and researchers with affected HackerOne accounts said in tweets that HackerOne is blocking payouts, citing economic sanctions and export controls…

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Twitter creates Tor onion site for those encountering censorship of its clear net site

Posted on March 10, 2022 by Dissent

Waqas reports: While Russia is blocking and banning social media platforms in the wake of its attack on Ukraine, Twitter has announced to launch Tor Onion Service to allow users continued access to the site. Simply put: you can now access Twitter on dark web without the need of using VPN although it is advised to use…

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Ukrainian Cyberpolice recruit help fighting Russia

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Dissent

None of the press email addresses for the Ukrainian cyberpolice have been working, so I’ll just post a notice from them here. I had reached out to them to ask them if they had tried directly recruiting those who they have arrested in the past, such as those affiliated with Clop.  I’ve also sent an…

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Iranian Government-Sponsored Actors Conduct Cyber Operations Against Global Government and Commercial Networks

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Dissent

From a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory (TLP:White): SUMMARY The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the U.S. CyberCommand Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSCUK) have observed a group of Iranian government-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actors, known as MuddyWater, conducting cyber espionage…

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This site’s new “No help for you” policy

Posted on February 18, 2022 by Dissent

From the “Yes-I’m-grumpy-but-you-earned-it Department:” Over the years, mainstream journalists have reached out to me for information related to breach stories they were developing, and I generally tried to help them. In some cases, that might involve a few phone calls. In other cases, it might be an hour or more of my time on the…

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